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North York sculptor’s
career carved in stone
FANNIE SUNSHINE
fsunshine@insidetoronto.com
Like most artists, Elizabeth
Merei was an art lover from an
early age.
But though she drew and

painted when young, it would
be years before she found her
true artistic calling – thanks to
an ESL course.
After moving to Toronto from
Hungary in 1972, she took ESL
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York University last Thursday that
sent two people to hospital.
Investigators are asking anyone
who may have images or video
related to the incident to upload
them to www.torontopolice.on.ca/
yorkushooting
Police said a man discharged a firearm inside the Student Centre around
10:45 p.m., hitting one woman in the
leg. A second woman was wounded
by shrapnel.

Ali Raza
araza@insidetoronto.com

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Toronto educator believes
comic books can help introduce a form of education
that might be more beneficial to
kids.
Manfred J. von Vulte, deputy
headmaster at Northmount
School in North York, released his
new book in January titled Comic
Books and Other Hooks: 21st
Century Education.
In it, he argues that education
needs to change into a more
experiential experience.
Using comic books among
other things as experiential tools,
von Volte believes the methods he
explains in his book can greatly
benefit the learning experience
for children.
He said in his experience in
being an educator, von Vulte has
noticed a lot of students between
grades 5 and 8 become accepting
of their academic fate.
These students prematurely
decide they can’t read or write
well. Von Vulte argued that this
attitude often comes within a
narrow framework of opportunities available to them.
“There’s a wider world out there
for students,” von Vulte said.
“There always exists a chance
for children to be better readers
and writers. Comic books are one
of the ways they can achieve that.
There are other ways as well and
the book talks about those, too.”
Comic books by nature involve
a dynamic setting with characters
set in a context of lore. The complex nature of a comic book and
its appeal to children can be beneficial in developing important
literary skills in the long term,
said von Vulte.
Having always been interested
in comic books since his childhood, he looked at them in his
own practice and saw the poten-

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Author Manfred von Vulte, left, is joined by fan Tyler Tyczka earlier this month at the Bayview Village
Mall Chapters location as he signs copies of his new book, ‘Comic Books and Other Hooks’.

tial.
“If you take a look at the high
level of vocabulary,” von Vulte
said. “The ability for students
to immediately refresh their
memory or the plot and the development of the character and back

‘Comic Books and Other Hooks’
is written by Manfred J. von
Vulte, deputy headmaster at
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story. It’s a super resource. It’s
beginning of hooking someone
into literature and can certainly
reinforce concepts later on.”
Von Vulte makes it clear in his
book that though he sees this
learning potential in comic books,
they are not the only source.
He provides comic books as an
example as something that can
change the course of how children are educated.
Having seen EQAO and other
test performances from students
across Ontario, von Vulte said
that there is an over-emphasis in
schools on content over process.
He explained content as a mix of
textbooks, multimedia and general assignments and process as
a combination of hands-on experiential learning. The additional
examples in his book among
comic books are robotics, instrumental music and fine art.
“The key words I always use
is we need to show children the
world behind the book,” von Vulte
said. “Ontario’s got a fantastic curriculum, but the issue comes in

the execution. I advocate experiential learning.”
Von Vulte believes experential
learning gives children a better
understanding of the subject. At
Northmount School, he has introduced this method with several
examples. Students were given
a book on farming and started a
garden at the school. For robotics,
in addition to a normal lesson
plan, students got the opportunity to build an R2D2 from Star
Wars.
Since the release of the Comic
Books and Other Hooks, feedback
has been positive. On the weekend of March 1, von Vulte was
invited to a Chapters at Bayview
Village for a book signing. At the
end of it, his book sold out and he
left with none in hand.
“I’ve been invited to over eight
TDSB schools,” von Vulte said.
“They see this working for
children who are high-achieving
and for children that are having
some issues making grade level.
It’s creativity leading to something
positive.”

Anyone with information can call
police at 416-808-3100 or Crime
Stoppers at 416-222-8477.

Police grab
jumping man
by ankles
Police potentially saved the life of a
man by grabbing hold of his ankles
as he alledgedly attempted to escape
from a sixth floor apartment window
Monday.
Police allege a man forced his way
into an apartment at 14 Gulliver Rd.
around 1:30 a.m., contrary to a court
order, and violently kicked, punched
and choked a woman while using a
cleaver.
The woman was able to scream for
help and broke free to open the door
for police. The man then attempted
to jump from the window, but officers were able to grab his ankles as
he fell.
Gordon Maracle, 28, is charged
with several offences.

correction
Last week’s listings of declared candidates for the municipal election
misspelled one of the candidates’
names.
Danny Quattrociocchi is a candidate in Ward 9 (York Centre).
The Mirror regrets the error.

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orontonians hoping to fill their bellies with
flavours representative of our diverse city may
be disappointed with the city’s long-awaited
menu of food truck bylaw amendments.
While foodies (and truck owners) waited to see
what Toronto’s new ‘food renaissance’ would look
like, Monday’s proposal seems to have been served
undercooked.
The proposal would allow food trucks to sell from
all pay-and-display parking spaces on major and
minor arterial roads and in parking lots, as long as
they are 50 metres or more from a bricks-and-mortar restaurant and 30 metres from school property.
And no more than two trucks on
given block.
our view anyThis
may seem like a victory for
the food truck movement and our
Let residents taste buds, but is it?
The proposal by city bureaudecide success crats
appears to give an advanof food trucks tage to restaurateurs. It would
also allow councillors and BIAs to
ask the city to ban the trucks from a particular area.
Most cities in North America have a buffer
between truck and restaurants. Setting the buffer at
50 metres seems high, but better than the 100 to 200
metres restaurant groups wanted.
Why so many obstacles in a city that prides itself
on being multicultural, that prides itself on its burgeoning restaurant scene? Celebrity chef Anthony
Bourdain even paid a visit to our fine city for some
gastronomic delights and enjoyed himself.
But, while the rest of North America seems to be
moving forward on this culinary quest, Toronto sets
up more obstacles to success.
We raise a cautious hand, as we recall the city’s
failed 2010 a la Cart experiment, which saw some
vendors loose a lot of money due to the bureaucratic red tape. City hall should not be over-thinking
the food truck movement. It should regulate it, hold
it to the highest health standards, then let residents
decide what they want.
The proposal goes to the licensing and standards
committee on Tuesday and then likely to all of
council for a deciding vote on April 1. Although
ambitious, the city wants to have trucks operating
on the street by May 15.
We’ll see what they serve up.

column

Shinny classic a nail-biter until the final bell

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ell, Sunday was
my last outdoor
game of shinny
for the season and I was
determined to go out on a
high note.
It was a classic, back-andforth affair from the start
that could have gone either
way and with less than a
minute before the Zamboni
was coming on and the
score tied 392-392, I got just
the break I wanted. I intercepted a pass at our blueline
and found myself on a twoon-one with Tristan.
I was about to send him
in all alone, when I heard
a loud ringtone. Tristan
reached down his sweatpants and pulled out his
cellphone.
“Hi, Shmoopie,” he said.
“I’ll call you in a sec. I’m in
the middle of something.”
Then he hung up. The
phone rang again. Tristan
picked up again.
“I told you I was gonna
get right back to you. No,
nothing’s more important
than talking to my beautiful Shmoopie Doopie. You

jamie wayne
BUT SERIOUSLY
know that, Shmooperienie.”
I looked to the heavens
to that big Gondola in the
sky wondering what Foster
Hewitt must be thinking.
Meanwhile, Tristan was still
gabbing away.
“Shmoopela, please.
Time’s running out and the
game is on the line. I promise, as soon as it’s over and
I’m in the dressing room, I’ll
give you a dingle.”
Then he hung up. The
phone rang again. Tristan
picked up again.
“Yeah, I’ll be back in time
to go to your mother’s. And,
yes, I’ll remember to pick
up that chocolate flan, too.
Just like I said I would. Now
I really have to scoot. I love
you, too. I love you more. I
love YOU more. No, I love
you MORE.”
Mercifully, it didn’t ring
right after he hung up for
once and we still had a
two-on-one. Phew. But the
others were gaining fast.

There was not a second to
waste.
“Tristan,” I yelled. “Go to
the net, man.”
Alas, as he made a beeline
for the crease, he reached
for the phone one last time.
Only this time he was the
one making the call.
“Shmoops? Just out of
curiosity, what the heck is a
flan anyway? And where do
I get one? Hang on, another
call is coming in ... Who’s
this? Luciano? I don’t know
any Luciano. Oh, the big
stud on our defense. Hey
Looch, what up? You want
me to look at who? Jamie?
Who’s he? That shifty little
speedster on my line? What
for? He’s trying to tell me to
do what...”
Too late. Before I could
get the words “keep your
head up” out of my mouth,
Tristan hit the post – with
his chest. Looking on
stunned, I was stripped of
the puck by a skinny guy
in a Habs jersey who raced
down the ice and scored
just as the Zamboni came
out. We lost a heart-breaker,

393-392.
Meanwhile, Tristan’s cell,
had been jettisoned high
into the air upon impact. I
grabbed it deftly on the way
down.
“Hey Shmoopster,” I
said speaking into it. “Just
wanted you to know your
boyfriend may be running
late. What’s that? Of course,
I know what a flan is, silly
billy. Doesn’t everybody?
Not to worry. I’ll let him
know. My best to your
mom.”
OK. So I lied. I have no
idea what a flan is, either.
All that really matters is this
story had a happy ending.
You see, in one of life’s
delightful ironies it turns out
it was a good thing Tristan
brought that smartphone,
after all.
I used it to look up flan on
Google before he got back
on his feet.
Jamie Wayne is a lifelong
columnist, who takes writing
very seriously. The topics?
Not so much. His column appears
every Thursday. Contact him at
jamie.wayne@sympatico.ca

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courses and noticed they offered
evening drawing classes. The art
class then began to experiment
with ceramics before moving onto
sculptures. And from that point on,
Merei found her passion.
“I loved the idea of working with
stone,” she said. “I was taken by
the beauty of the natural material.
Once you start to carve and sand,
the beauty shines through.”
Not a fan of abstract, she mainly
focuses her work on bodies and
faces, which allows Merei to best
express emotion, she said.
“When I express my feelings,
usually it’s through a body or a
face,” she said of her pieces. “They
are mostly female. It’s the best
way to express my feelings or
moods.”
To celebrate 30 years of exhibiting her work, the North York sculptor is planning a home studio show
in the fall, but before then has two
shows lined up.
One show, at the Columbus
Centre, 901 Lawrence Ave. W.,
runs until March 28. The second
exhibit will be showcased at the
Canadian Sculpture Centre, 500
Church St., from today to April 4,
with the opening reception March

Photo/Courtesy

One of Elizabeth Merei’s creations,
‘Minerva’.

15 at 1:30 p.m.
Some of the pieces in the show
just came back from her hometown
of Szombathely, Hungary, where
Merei exhibited her work for two
months at the Iseum Savariense
Museum. That’s a world away
from her first exhibit in Yorkville
in 1984, and she went on to have
shows across Canada, Italy and the

United States. She has also served
on the executive of the Sculptors
Society of Canada and is currently
represented by Galerie Lamoureux
Ritzenhoff in Montreal.
Though she has sold many pieces
throughout her three decades of
sculpting, there is one piece she
refuses to give up – her very first
one, of a body lying down and
emerging from the stone.
“There are certain pieces you
don’t sell,” she said, adding sculpting has been her full-time job for
the past seven years.
As for time spent on her craft,
it all depends how the creativity is
flowing, Merei said.
“It’s quite erratic,” she said. “If
you’re in the zone, you wake up,
no coffee, it’s straight down to the
studio. Sometimes I have something in mind, other times I’m not
sure and need time. The stone tells
you what it wants to be.”
As for her favourite piece?
“As any artist will tell you, it’s
always the one just sold,” she
said.
For information, visit www.
elizabethmerei.com

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visit www.elizabethmerei.com

Michael Coteau, MPP
Don Valley East

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Photo/Courtesy

Min Jee Kim won Sporting Life’s Design Your Goose contest.

Fashion student’s military theme
wins Canada-wide design contest
>>>from page 1
techniques and design student
at George Brown College chose a
military style for her jacket – named
Simple Military Goose – complete
with leather sleeves.
“I’ve always been interested in
military-inspired style,” said the
Bathurst Street and Drewry Avenue
resident. “You see a lot of designers doing that these days. There
is a trend in leather sleeves and I
thought it would be nice to design
a Canada Goose jacket.”
The 25 entries were judged by
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of a Canada Goose jacket to bring
life to their design.
“I couldn’t believe it,” Kim said of
her reaction to winning. “I thought
I wouldn’t win. I thought mine was
really different, too different from
the others.”
Kim won her own Canada Goose
jacket, a $5,000 bursary, and the
chance to see her Simple Military
jacket displayed at Sporting Life,
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WE ARE PAN AM
“Our school project
became the official mascot
for the Pan Am Games!”
PACHI Pals: Fiona Hong, Jenny Lee,
Paige Kunihiro and Michelle Ing designed PACHI,
the official mascot of the TORONTO 2015 Games.
Four Buttonville Public School classmates designed
PACHI, the official mascot for Canada’s largest
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Taking the chill out of the cold call
Cold calling: we don’t like
doing it, but small businesses have to in order to
survive.
Enterprise Toronto is
hosting a seminar on how
to take the fear out of cold
calling. It takes place from
10 to 11:30 a.m. Thursday,
March 27 at the North York
Civic Centre, Committee
Room 3. Tom Kaufman, of
TK Enterprises, will lead the
session.
North York Civic Centre is
at 5100 Yonge St. The event
is free but registration is
required. Call 416-395-4716
or email enterprisetoronto@
toronto.ca
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There are a number of
income tax clinics taking
place in North York at the
Central and Downsview
branches.
This free service is provided by Certified General
Accountants for 2013
Income Tax returns. The
clinics are available to single
persons with incomes under

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$25,000 or families with
incomes of under $35,000.
North York Central
Library is hosting sessions
on Tuesday evenings until
April 15 (except for April 8)
from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Call 416395-5613 for details.
The Downsview branch
is hosting Saturday sessions
from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. These
will go until May 10. Call
416-395-5720 to register.
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Still at the libraries, the
Downsview branch is hosting a session with a certified
professional accountant
(CPA) on healthy habits of
financial management.
Taking place from 1 to 2
p.m. on Thursday, March
27, the session will cover
topics such as financial
literacy and goal-setting, as
well as where to go for additional resources to get your

financial house in order.
Register by calling
416-395-5720, email
doprograms@torontopubliclibrary.ca or visit the
branch at 2793 Keele St.
PanAm procurement
opportunities
Businesses looking to take
advantage of procurement
opportunities arising from
the upcoming PanAm
Games in Toronto may be
interested in an upcoming
event hosted by the Toronto
Hispanic Chamber of
Commerce.
The event takes place
from 8 to 11 a.m. at 25
Dockside Dr. March 17.
Attendees will hear from the
new Games CEO, Saad Rafi,
as well as Bill Zakarow, the
director of procurement.
The event is free to members, $75 for non-members.
For more information, visit
www.thcc.ca

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special exhibit that
was featured five
years ago at the
Ontario Science Centre has
returned with new features,
more interactive displays,
and plenty to do for all
ages.
Sultans of Science:
1,000 Years of Knowledge
Rediscovered opened
Friday and will run until
June 7 for visitors to learn
about the important scientific and technological discoveries made by scholars
during the Golden Age of
Islamic Science.
“It’s the only exhibition
we ever brought back,” said
Hooley McLaughlin, vicepresident and chief science officer at the Ontario

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Visitors to Ontario Science Centre can explore
1,000 years of discoveries in new exhibit
Science Centre.
“This one is special. The
research is deep and the
research is extensive.”
The exhibition areas
include the Foundation
of Optical Science where
visitors can conduct
various experiments in
the optical laboratory of
Ibn Al-Haytham, a 10thcentury Muslim physicist
who invented the pinhole
camera.
There’s also a display
where people can examine
replicas of sophisticated
dental and surgical tools
used long ago that are quite
similar to those doctors and
dentists use today.
“We are talking about
the roots of our science,”
McLaughlin said. “Science
is a part of our lives and our
history.”

Lesley Lewis welcomed
back the popular exhibit to
the Ontario Science Centre
in her opening remarks,
which she noted coincides
nicely with the scheduled
opening of the Aga Khan
Museum near Don Mills
Road and Eglinton Avenue
this year.
“The Sultans of Science
was immensely popular
when we first brought it
in 2009,” Lewis said. “The
knowledge displayed in
this exhibition is important
to everyone in our diverse
society.”
Ludo Verheyen, CEO of
MTE Studios, which developed the interactive exhibition, thanked the Ontario
Science Centre to be able to
present Sultans of Science
a second time in “one of the
leading science centres in

the world.”
The exhibit has now travelled to 11 countries and
four continents since it was
first developed more than a
decade ago.
Early reviews from a
few high school students
exploring Sultans of Science
on the opening day of the
exhibition were positive.
“I really like it,” said
Jessica Patel, a Grade 12
student from Lakeshore
Collegiate Institute, who
particularly appreciated
the historical information
behind some of the inventions.
Fellow Grade 12 students Sophie Zhang and
Ava Ghods also gave their
approval.
“I think it’s the best one
in the science centre so far,”
Zhang said.

Families take in the Sultans of Science displays Friday at the
Ontario Science Centre. Visitors can catch the exhibit until
June 7.
Staff photo/DAN PEARCE
The Ontario Science Centre
is at 770 Don Mills Rd. Visit
www.ontariosciencecentre.ca
for details.

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The family of an inaugural
member of North York General
Hospital’s patient and family
advisory council has established the Patricia Mackey
Patient- and Family-Centred
Care Educational Award in her
memory.
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Mackey, who was treated at
the hospital for cancer, died
Feb. 24. Before her death, she
shared her thoughts and observations on living with a terminal disease in a video posted
on the hospital’s website at
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Baycrest Health Sciences can
expand its landmark study
looking at the brain health
of hockey players, thanks
to $750,000 donated by the
Canadian Institutes of Health
Research.
The study is now looking
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League players. The new
funding will allow researchers to study university hockey
alumni.
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Research Institute, recognized
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Aeros sweep playoff
series
The Toronto Aeros women’s
junior hockey team, who finished third in their Provincial
Women’s Hockey League
(PWHL) regular season, swept
their opening round best-offive series in three straight
against 14th place London
Devilettes.
Other first-round matches
were set to wrap up as of
Tuesday and the Aeros, also
based out of North York’s
Herbert Carnegie Centennial
Centre, were awaiting the
posting of their second round
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Meeting on income
inequality
North York Harvest Food Bank
and North York Community
House will participate in a
town hall meeting on income
equality.
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seeking strategies to fight poverty. It will be held March 20
from 8 a.m. to noon at North
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at 7 Eglinton Ave. east of Yonge
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liberal.ola.org or call 416-2126326.
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Mel Lastman Square
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The 10th annual Iranian
Fire Festival takes over Mel
Lastman Square from 7 to 10
p.m., Tuesday, March 18.
The festival of fire is a prelude to the ancient Nowrouz
(Iranian New Year) festival,
which marks the arrival of
spring and revival of nature.
It is celebrated
on the eve
of last the
Wednesday
of the Iranian year, literally the
eve of ‘Red Wednesday’ or the
eve of celebration.
Special programs include
Iranian music and dance performances and Iranian-themed
Kids Zone, Iranian Food, fireworks and more.
For more information, visit
iranianfirefestival.com

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camp registration
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is taking registrations for its
summer camps.
Camps are for youth aged
eight to 17 and are running
from July 2 to Aug. 29.
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(YNOT) is a community
based organization dedicated to giving meaning to
the lives of youth (aged 12 - 24
years) in conflict with the law.
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Olivia Chow to resign federal seat, join race for mayor’s seat
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enter the mayor’s race this
morning, launching her
campaign at 11 a.m. in St.
James Town.
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2011 federal campaign
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know, Olivia Chow will be
entering the mayoral race
on Thursday. A detailed
media advisory will follow
shortly, but I can tell you
the announcement is at 11
a.m. in St. Jamestown on
Thursday,” read the email.
The exact location of the
announcement will be in

the parish hall at St. Simonthe-Apostle Church, 525
Bloor St. E.
The note ends a two-anda-half month guessing and
waiting game for Chow, who
today resigns her Federal
seat representing the riding
of Trinity-Spadina for the
New Democratic Party.
Until now, Chow has
been coy about her inten-

tions regarding the mayoral
race, spending the first
months of 2014 promoting her autobiography My
Journey.
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Toronto District School Board passes budget: no cuts to programs, staff
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Toronto District School Board
(TDSB) trustees unanimously
approved the 2014-2015 operating budget of about $3 billion
at the March 5 regular board
meeting without making cuts
to school programs and staffing.
Board staff addressed the
$12.4-million shortfall they
faced this year by finding
maintenance savings with

more work scheduled during
day shifts, implementing an
attendance management
system to reduce costs associated with absenteeism, as
well as non-school based staff
reductions through attrition.
Trustees also approved
the budget earlier than usual
ahead of the provincial grant
announcement on school
board funding to emphasize
the impact of any further provincial grant reductions on
the board.

“If the rules change, we’re
not responsible for that shortfall,” said Sheila Cary-Meagher,
Beaches-East York trustee,
noting that responsibility will
fall on the provincial government.
Past TDSB budgets were
more contentious as they
faced deficits as large as $110
million in 2012 when trustees
voted to cut 430 educational
assistant positions and nearly
400 teaching and clerical positions as well as cuts to school

cafeterias, individual school
budgets and reducing professional development days.
Howard Goodman, trustee
for Eglinton-Lawrence, further
urged senior levels of government to make societal investments including funding to
replace many aging schools
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Toronto Crime Stoppers
hopes to snuff out contraband tobacco with an aggressive ad campaign launched
Tuesday.
The six-week initiative consists of 42 billboards placed
throughout the city, many
near high schools, warning
of the dangers associated with
illegal cigarettes. Another 42
ads will be placed at transit
shelters across the city next
week.
The campaign, kicked
off at a Mac’s Convenience
store on Dean Park Road in
Scarborough, is funded by the
National Coalition Against
Contraband Tobacco.
The group’s executive

director Jacqueline Bradley
said illegal tobacco funds
175 organized crime groups
that in turn fund guns and
drugs.
“Even human smuggling
has been linked to contraband
tobacco,” she said. “The fact
is it’s being trafficked to our
children and the easy accessibility coupled with how
very dangerously inexpensive this product is makes me
extremely concerned for our
youth.”
Toronto Crime Stoppers
vice-chair Sean Sportun
noted there are also health
risks associated with illegal
cigarettes.
“It’s unregulated. You don’t
really know what’s in that type
of tobacco.”
Bruce Watson of Mac’s

Convenience said about 30
per cent of the tobacco market
in Ontario is contraband.
“We feel there’s a risk that
number is going to increase,”
he said.
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bag of 200 (cigarettes) for $10.
A carton of legally bought
cigarettes is about $80.”
Watson added the contraband market is “totally
flushing down the toilet all
the years of work and progress made in reducing youth
smoking.”
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identified 50 illegal tobacco
manufacturing plants in
Canada and many illegal
smoke shacks (makeshift
stores that sell contraband
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Dozens of members from the
Toronto Somali community
shouted “Shame” at the Toronto
District School Board (TDSB)
meeting last week, protesting a
plan to help improve the educational success of Somali students.
They disagreed with recomDespite all the challenges,
mendations from a special task
our community has a lot
force established by the TDSB
of potential to succeed
in November 2012 to address
the issue of “students of Somali
through education. This
descent experiencing a signifiis part of the transition.
cant, persistent achievement gap
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when compared to TDSB students overall.”
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tions included developing and
of Somali-speaking students
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the number of parenting and
TDSB students.
family literacy centres in neighAhmed Ilmi, a PhD University
bourhoods with large Somaliof Toronto graduate and member
Canadian populations, and
of the task force, said the recomestablishing a Somali Heritage
mendations would help build
Month.
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But critics of the task force say
give students of Somali descent
such recommendations would
the best opportunity to succeed.
only stigmatize the local Somali
Not unlike the Africentric
community.
elementary school first estab“We’re telling you we don’t
lished by the TDSB in 2009, Ilmi
want it. It’s not helping us,” said
said there is benefit from having
Anisa Osman. “That’s why this
teachers who are equipped and
commotion is going on, because
better understand the Somali
we’re not being heard.”
diaspora to support young learnSaeed Mohamud, a parent
ers.
with three children in the public
“Despite all the challenges, our
school system, said they will
community has a lot of potential
continue to reject the
to succeed through
Be a part of the
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“It’s segregation
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sition.”
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and we will never
The meeting ended
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accept it,” he said.
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“Our children will not
some trustees unknowthe comments
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Mohamud added
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they weren’t conmembers of the Somali
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community who had stayed more
the task force “a special interest
than four hours expecting to hear
group.”
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“They don’t represent our chilagenda item.
dren,” he said.
The rest of the meeting
But a TDSB report cited the
was then convened in private
task force, consisting of trustees,
until midnight when trustees
board staff and Somali commuadjourned for the night.
nity members, sought input from
The next regular meeting of the
the larger Somali community
Toronto District School board is
through five community consulscheduled for Wednesday, April 9.
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North York Storm goalie
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an apple
a day...
great big crunch:
David Huang and Seneca
Hill students and teachers bite down on an
apple for The Great Big
Crunch last Thursday.
This health initiative is a
special day of good food
education, ending with a
massive, synchronized
bite into a crunchy apple
to celebrate.
Staff photo/Dan Pearce

rangers advance

Advancing to provincials
junior league
action: The
North York
Rangers’ Liam
Kerins, front, collides with St.
Michael’s
Buzzers’ C.J.
Shugart during
Ontario Junior
Hockey League
action Friday at
Herb Carnegie
Centennial
Arena. The
Rangers went on
to win the game
3-1, lifting the
team to a 4-1
opening series
advantage and
advancement to
the second round
of the playoffs.
North York now
faces the
TorontoLakeshore
Patriots.
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REGIONAL GOLD: O’Connor Bowl’s Joshua Lameira, 7, left, Sean Gorman and Mathew Lloyd,
15, won the gold medal last month in the 5-pin Masters Youth regional tournament at
Parkway Bowl. The team advances to the provincial tournament, which will take place at
Parkway Bowl March 23.

North York’s Balsdon gets
sportsmanship honour
from Tim Hortons Brier
North York native Greg
Balsdon brought back a
prestigious trophy from the
2014 Tim Hortons Brier, which
wrapped up in Kamloops on
Sunday – but not the one he
was really after.
In his first appearance at the
national men’s curling championship, Balsdon skipped
his team from Hamilton’s
Glendale Golf and Country
Club, where he is the curling
professional, to a 5-6 record.
While it wasn’t good enough
to make the playoffs, he did
leave with the Ross Harstone
Award, given to the curler
judged by his peers to best
represent “high ideals of good
sportsmanship, observance of
the rules, exemplary conduct
and curling ability.”
“Very honored,” responded
Balsdon in a tweet.
The Balsdon team was
competitive early on with a
4-2 record at one point before
four straight losses put them
out of the running.
“Hope to be back,” he
tweeted.
And that can’t be ruled out,
judging by his track record at
the always tough provincial
men’s championship held earlier this year. In his seventh
visit to the Ontario Tankard he
managed to accomplish what
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Ontario skip Greg Balsdon competes during the Tim
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Mackenzie ties for fifth in OFSAA wrestling
A couple of Toronto high
schools almost wrestled their
way onto the podium at the
provincial high school boys
wrestling championships.
Rexdale’s West Humber
Collegiate and North York’s
W.L. Mackenzie Collegiate
finished fourth and tied for
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Police Services is urging
road users to be watchful for
pedestrians.
The March Break, March
Safe Campaign is employed
by the police during the
school holiday period to
call attention to pedestrian
safety. This year’s campaign
launched Monday.
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pedestrians were killed in
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75 per cent of all fatal traffic
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The TTC has announced a
series of subway closures
in March and April for construction related to its signal
upgrade work on the YongeUniversity-Spadina (YUS)
line, also known as Line 1.
Two more closures are
planned for the weekend of
March 22 to 23 and on April
5 to 6 during which time
there will be no subway service between Bloor-Yonge
and St. Andrew stations.

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Frequent closures have
been a staple of TTC use
over the last couple of years
as the transit commission
proceeds on a host of modernization improvements,
including automatic track
control (ATC). While the
work isn’t expected to be
completed until 2018 at the
earliest, the TTC promises
when ATC is online, headways – the distance between
trains – will be automatically
calculated by computer,
allowing for more efficient
train service on Line 1.
The TTC posted online
a YouTube explainer video
of the ATC work. Visit www.
ttc.ca
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the Line
wart
An art exhibition featuring sketches of subway
commuters from several
countries is screening on
TTC subway platform video
screens until April 13.
Sketching the Line is the

latest cultural offering from
the Art in Transit series and
features 78 renditions of
subway riders from Toronto,
New York City, Berlin and
the United Kingdom.
The drawings depict
commuters caught in a state
of contemplation while they
ride the subway in various
locales.
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fatalities : OPP
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Distracted driving is now the
No. 1 killer when it comes to
automobile-related fatalities, says the OPP.
With fines for texting
or talking on a cellphone
while driving set to increase,
the provincial police force
released statistics last week
showing last year there were
78 fatalities caused by distracted driving, compared to
57 for impaired driving and
44 for speeding.
As of March 18, fines
for distracted driving will
increase from $155 to $280.
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transit reporter. His column
appears every Thursday. Reach
him on Twitter: @TOinTRANSIT

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The City Youth Council of
Toronto (CYCTO) is looking
for residents from the ages
14 to 24 who have exhibited
leadership and acts of kindness.
The City Champions program, now in its second year,
chooses one champion a
month for making a difference
in building a better city.
The 12 winners are decorated in an awards ceremony
and press conference at the
Toronto City Hall’s Members’

It was not for nothing that
Rob and Doug Ford made a
point of listing an electoral
‘hit list’ of city councillors
they’d like to see replaced.
If the Fords are serious about governing for
another four years, they’ll
need both allies on council
– but more importantly,
they’ll need to reduce the
ranks of what can only be
called enemies.
This is a problem for the
Fords. Also, it’s a problem
for those considering supporting Rob Ford again for
mayor. For those, here is a
reality check: it might, in
real terms, be impossible
to re-elect Ford as mayor,
even if he manages to pull
in the most votes.
A city government made
up mostly of councillors
who were re-elected or
elected by voters upset
with the way Mayor Ford
has comported himself, are
unlikely to let a re-elected
Mayor Ford govern.
Remember, a solid
majority of councillors
voted to strip Ford of his
powers last year.
Since then, council has
trundled along reasonably
peaceably under Deputy
Mayor Norm Kelly.

Lounge in December, when
they will be able to network
with city council and the
mayor.
One of them will also be
announced as City Champion
of the Year, and their name
will be engraved on a plaque
at Toronto City Hall.
“There may be a young
person who is not on the
honour roll, who isn’t the
athlete of the year at their
school, but has done something positive in their school

or community and deserves
to be recognized no matter
how small of it was,” said
Tyler Johnson, founder of
the CYCTO.
Recipients are selected by
the Youth Councillors, who
are elected to two-year terms
for each of the city’s 44 wards.
They advocate for civic literacy
and participation by youth in
municipal government.
Nominations can be made
at toronto.mycitymyvoice.
ca

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the city
More than a few councillors – some on, and some
off the record – made it
clear that in the event the
mayor’s re-elected, they’d
waste little time in extending Ford’s exile.
“It’s true that if the city
should choose to return
him, you have to ask how
can we take his powers
away,” said Don Valley East
Councillor Shelley Carroll.
“But I’ve got to tell you,
we’d be looking to. .. (His
re-election) is a slim possibility, but we would be
giving him a rough ride.”
For Ford to govern,
councillors like Carroll will
have to go straight up – and
others, who are maybe less
forthright at the moment,
will have to be on the list,
too.
Etobicoke Centre
Councillor Gloria Lindsay
Luby, no friend of the
mayor, merely said, “I
think he has to demonstrate that he’s changed.”
Etobicoke Lakeshore’s
Peter Milczyn pointed out
that an election – even

one that might not see a
majority in charge – should
confer the powers of office
on the winner. But he
admitted that in the case of
Mayor Ford, the decision
of whether to respect that
vote entirely would be a
tough call.
“Certainly the initial
reaction would be you
win an election, you get to
enjoy the power that goes
with the office,” he said.
“But the question of what
else goes on between now
and then... If there’s more
drugs, or drinking, or whatever it is between now and
election day, but he gets
elected anyway? That kind
of colours any authority he
would have.”
So there it is: Rob Ford
could transform himself
between now and Oct.
27. Or, council could all
face the wrath of Ford
Nation – and re-elect Rob
Ford along with a council
that doesn’t worry about
things like drug abuse and
truancy.
It’s anybody’s guess,
which is the harder fight
to win.

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city hall reporter. His column
appears every Thursday.

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City’s Strong Neighbourhood Strategy could expand
Number of
neighbourhoods
could increase
to 31 from 22
DAVID NICKLE
dnickle@insidetoronto.com
More neighbourhoods in
Toronto could be encompassed in the city’s Strong
Neighbourhood Strategy if
Toronto council goes along with
a staff report that would bring
the total number of Priority
Neighbourhoods to 31, from the
current 22.
If council goes along with
the plan put forward by staff,
it would mark the first time
since 2005 that the city revised
its system of setting priority
neighbourhoods since 2005,
when under then-mayor David
Miller the city first adopted its
Toronto Strong Neighbourhoods
Strategy.
At the time, the city used data

gathered by the United Way of
Greater Toronto, in a city-wide
study that used various criteria
to recognize neighbourhoods in
need of help.
Poverty and crime were a
factor, but so, too, was access
to services such as daycare and
basic staples such as groceries.
The new system uses a new
metric, called a “Neighbourhood
Equity Score,” which is derived
from five categories:
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(which look at the unemployment levels, income levels and
social assistance)
w social development (which
measures education level and
degree of marginalization)
w the ability to participate in
decision-making (tied to the
municipal voting rate)
w physical surroundings (looking at available meeting spaces,
walkability, healthy food stores
and green space)
w healthy lives (which encompasses premature mortality,
mental health, diabetes rates
and hospitalization rates)
City staff has assessed 140
neighbourhoods and calcu-

“

It seems to have worked
well in a number of the
neighbourhoods. To expand
that into areas that have
their challenges makes
sense.
– Councillor Peter Milczyn

lated a benchmark score, below
which a neighbourhood is
deemed priority.
The new scoring system
shows 31 neighbourhoods fall
into the priority category. If
approved, those neighbourhoods will be eligible for more
city resources.
At least for now, that won’t
have a financial impact, because
in 2014 council approved
another $300,000 in funding
to support “emerging needs in
underserviced areas” and $12
million in capital funding for
investment in Neighbourhood
Improvement areas.
Those funds will be used to
transition neighbourhoods that
will be moving into the new

portfolio.
Mayor Rob Ford told reporters Monday that he’d oppose
the changes. But other councillors were more supportive of the
possibility.
“That’s perfectly fine as long
as the deliverables are clear as to
what we want to achieve,” said
Etobicoke-Lakeshore Councillor
Peter Milczyn.
“It seems to have worked well
in a number of the neighbourhoods. To expand that into areas
that have their challenges makes
sense.”
Don Valley East Councillor
Shelley Carroll noted that
the highrise community surrounding the Peanut on Don
Mills Road didn’t make the
cut – despite having poverty
and crime issues. But she said it
made sense, given that the area
is already well-served with a
combination of public services
and charitable services.
“It’d be great to be a priority
neighbourhood but I wouldn’t
get a whole lot more than what’s
underway,” she said.
“There are neighbourhoods
on the new list that need it all.”

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